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The Federal Trade Commission has fined two developers who claimed their mobile apps could cure acne with flashing colour, but there's still plenty of snake-oil on sale. Colour therapy for acne does have medical credentials, but the FTC's ruling is clear that the frequencies generated by a smartphone screen aren't even close to …

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  1. MrT

    Forget fingerprints...

    ...there's now a decent sample size to see just how well that oleophobic screen coating copes under *severe* duress...

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  2. Framitz
    Flame

    But, but, wait!

    How did this happen? Apple app Nazis should have stopped this before it even started...

    Oh, Right, Apple cares NOTHING about it as they got a cut.

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  3. Graham Lockley

    @stefan

    >The 3300 Android users...is that all of them?

    The level of trolling in here is getting so low even an iPhone user can spot them (as long as he/she has an app to assist in the observation process)

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Hmm, an idea!

    If colour can affect acne, maybe there's another opportunity in paint and wallpaper?

    Or maybe lampshades?

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  5. Nameless Faceless Computer User
    Stop

    Difficult to believe

    What? No weight loss app?

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  6. Thomas Allen
    FAIL

    Apps for Prayer

    Apps for Prayer - helping you recite and track your years reduced in Purgatory, etc. Why isn't this as much a fraud? Apps for the rosary, for instance... oh well, been going on for 2000+ years

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